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by petters 3237 days ago
> Proving P=NP doesn't magically create the algorithm, it just proves that there is one.

This is 100% true for all practical purposes. But there is an explicit algorithm for NP-complete problems that runs in polynomial time iff P=NP. The Wikipedia page has it written down. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_versus_NP_problem